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Friday, October 24, 2014

Well, I
bound another book. I know one of the authors, so I got permission to show it
off. Well, she gave her permission, and assured me her co-author would like it,
too. So here it is, a hand-bound, print version of Broken by Cedric Johnson and
Veronica Giguere:

Here’s my
title page, with the cover as a frontispiece. I think that turned out very
nicely, if I may say so myself. {SMILE, wink}

And here’s
my cover. It’s plainer than I’d like, but I haven’t found a satisfactory
picture to add between the title and authors. I’m looking for one that suits
the near-future cyberpunk story. I thought maybe a circuit diagram, but I haven’t
found one that felt right yet. {Smile}

No, I can’t
just use the official cover. At the large size inside, it would risk damaging
the cover. At a size small enough not to do that, it doesn’t look like much. That’s
why it’s a frontispiece now, and the cover is yellow, with easy to read letters
in red. {chuckle, Smile}

I used
Smashwords, because I suspected I’d want a hardcopy, and they make that easy.
Obviously I did, so that worked great. {BIG SMILE}

Anne
Elizabeth BaldwinP.S. If you're wondering what you're looking at, that's my best approximation of a Japanese stab binding, with cardstock covers reinforced by tissue-tape made specially for book repair. I'm particularly happy with how the reinforcing turned out. Compared to the last thick book I bound in this style, the covers are curling much less, and they don't feel like they're liable to rip out if I forget to handle them carefully. (This one is slightly thinner which might help the latter problem. Still, the change is dramatic enough, at least some must be due to the reinforcing.) {Smile}

Sunday, October 12, 2014

{peek in} Sorry I’ve still been quiet. The weather
decided to heat up to heat wave levels in August, and continued right thru
September into October. It might have broken today. It was finally
cooler, but only time will tell if today was a fluke or a real change. {smile}

I’m afraid I’ve never been good at either cooling
off when I get hot, or warming up when I get cold. So the hot weather really got
to me. It even had me convinced a few times that a heart condition I’ve
recently been diagnosed with was a lot more serious than the doctor implied.
Hopefully it was just the heat, which hopefully has passed the worst. {cross
fingers, Smile}